Newsletter February 2016

NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2016

This month on Samvriti, three encounters with the genres. Three genres of encounters, three kinds across writing styles and academic labels, somewhere between contemplative thought, activist impetus and artistic version. The genres of expression, just like those of identity, are necessarily plural. Only possible route away from the barren possibilities of dual oppositions. It takes more than two to make one…
Less banal than my genre identity, I feel through the genres of my expression a need for plurality and inner difference. I enjoy the occasional exercise in style but dread the anxiogènous ramparts of each genre. Scripted body, just like biological body, needs experimenting. And beyond, continuously practicing and performing between and across the many idioms and dialects. Even of, a single langue. One’s own…

Samuel

SAMVRITI MONTHLY ・ FEBRUARY 2016
ESSAY SERIES
Levinas : For the Feminine Other 6 December 2013
FROM THE PARAPLUIE
Beyond the Kiss ・ Au-delà du baiser 30 November 2014
Plays of the Copula ・ Jeux de la copule 2 December 2014

Levinas : For the Feminine Other

Levinas’s prose, intentionally poetic in style, carries the climate of almost an spiritual discussion. Levinas’s words have a certain aura, a sense of solemnity, the impression of a profundity that one would only find in sacred texts. Inherently, there is a sort of timeless beauty and depth visible from the first sight, in the texts of Levinas. But is it the charm of a benevolent father figure, or is it the persuasive argumentation of an authoritative patriarch ? . . .

EXPLORE THE SERIES
Introduction
Levinas : For the Feminine Other
Part 1 Part 2
Levinas, the Patriarch Levinas, Benevolent Father ?
Part 3 Conclusion
Levinas, Exploding Genders and Sexualities ? A Taste for the Other

Beyond the Kiss | Au-delà du baiser
Beyond the KissAu-delà du baiser
30 November 2014

EN

That is when Brossard and I started losing our complicity. I was the student advisor’s favourite in the whole batch, for the entire year of 6th grade. But times changed. A couple years down the line, and I was spotted holding a girl’s hand, or caught on the school’s courtyard giving a surreptitious peck…

FR

C’est là que Brossard et moi commençâmes à perdre notre complicité. J’étais le préféré du pion de toute la promo, pour toute l’année de sixième. Mais les temps avaient changé. Deux ans plus tard, et j’étais repéré à tenir la main d’une fille, ou surpris dans la cour de l’école à donner un piou furtif…

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Plays of the Copula | Jeux de la copule
Plays of the CopulaJeux de la copule
2 December 2014

EN

This will just take a couple minutes of your time. Not of theirs. November, December, a couple of months, months of the couples in the sub-continent. This weekend, a few of my friends are getting married. A couple. Of couples…

FR

Juste une affaire de quelques précieuses minutes, a couple minutes of your time. Mais pas pour eux. Novembre, Décembre, deux mois, a couple of months, mois des couples dans le sous-continent. Ce weekend, plusieurs de mes amis se marient. A couple. Of Couples. Deux. Deux couples…

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